[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 97 (Monday, July 12, 1999)]
[House]
[Pages H5339-H5340]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 OPENING OF SARATOGA NATIONAL CEMETERY

  (Mr. McNULTY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McNULTY. Mr. Speaker, on Friday we opened the new Saratoga 
National Cemetery, and I was in the company of 2,000 distinguished 
veterans and a very special former colleague in this House. Two of my 
former colleagues, as a matter of fact, spent a lot of time on that 
project, one of them, Sam Stratton, who was a Member of this body for 
30 years. He has since passed away.
  But another, thank God, was there for the event itself, and that was 
Congressman Jerry Solomon, who served in this House for 20 years and 
rose to be Chair of the Committee on Rules, and it was a great honor to 
be in the presence of all of those veterans and to be able to look 
Congressman Solomon in the eye and say:
  ``Thank you for your dedication through the years and for allowing me 
to be a part of those efforts for the past 10 years.''

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  And now, to be able to realize that heroes like Pete D'Alesandro, who 
was a Congressional Medal of Honor winner from my district, will be one 
of the first veterans who finds that place as his final resting place, 
it was just another great opportunity to be with great Americans and to 
thank God for my life and veterans for my way of life.

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